Zelenskyy and Netanyahu are spawn of Hitler and the devil, Nicaraguan leader says

Nicaragua’s authoritarian leader called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sons of the devil and Hitler in a rambling speech.
President Daniel Ortega made the comments Monday during a televised address at an event honoring the country’s police force, according to Nicaraguan media.
“The Israeli government is headed by a prime minister who is the son of the devil. Why? Because he is pursuing a policy of terror and he is [Adolf] Hitler,” Ortega said.
“The prime minister of Israel is Hitler … just like the president of Ukraine is another Nazi, another son of Hitler, wanting to involve NATO in going to war against the Russian Federation,” he added.
Zelenskyy is ethnically Jewish and has said that three of his grandfather’s brothers were killed in the Holocaust, perpetrated by Hitler’s Nazi Germany. The Kremlin has pushed the narrative that Ukraine is stuffed with Nazis in a bid to justify its all-out war. Netanyahu is also Jewish.
Ortega has been in power since 2007 and is widely regarded as a dictator, jailing his political rivals and critics and taking control of state institutions.
Nicaragua has had close ties with Moscow since the Cold War, during which the Soviet Union supported the overthrow of the Central American country’s regime in 1979 by leftist rebels led by Ortega.
Nicaragua has also long supported the Palestinian cause and was among the first nations to recognize Palestinian statehood in 1988. The Managua administration officially broke off diplomatic ties with Israel last week, calling Netanyahu’s government “fascist” and “genocidal.”
Earlier this year Nicaragua also launched legal proceedings against Germany at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a bid to stop Berlin from supplying weapons to Israel for its war in Gaza. In April the ICJ dismissed the case — which Nicaragua had brought to the court under pressure from Moscow, Western intelligence officials and diplomats told POLITICO.